The Department of Foreign Language Education
cordially invites you to
a talk by
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Bublitz
Lehrstuhl Englische Sprachwissenschaft/
Chair of English Linguistics
University of Augsburg
Germany
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 2nd 2013
10:30 – 12:00
Venue: Demir Demirgil Hall, ÖFB Building, South Campus
Title: “The pragmatics of quoting now and then”
Bio-data:
Wolfram Bublitz is Full Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Augsburg, Germany. He received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg and his habilitation from the University of Trier. He has also been Full Professor at the University of Braunschweig (Germany), Exchange Professor at Northern Illinois University (USA) and Visiting Professor at the Universities of Pittsburgh (USA) and Hamburg (Germany). His research interests concern most areas of text analysis, (constructivist) pragmatics and CMC. His (edited) books include Foundations of Pragmatics (ed. with N. Norrick, Handbooks of Pragmatics 1. De Gruyter, 2011), Englische Pragmatik (2nd ed., Schmidt, 2009), Metapragmatics in Use (ed. with A. Hübler, Benjamins, 2007), Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse (ed. with U. Lenk, E. Ventola, Benjamins, 1999). Together with Andreas Jucker (Zürich, Switzerland) and Klaus Schneider (Bonn, Germany) he is the editor of the nine-volume series Handbooks of Pragmatics (de Gruyter Mouton, 2010 ff).
